LIKE much of the Mountain West, Colorado has been tilting Democratic in recent years. Colorado’s Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, crows that starting in Montana you can drive from the Canadian border to Mexico without passing through a single state governed by a Republican.
During the past four years Democrats have seized control of the Colorado legislature and captured Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s Senate seat, and now occupy a majority of the state’s seven congressional seats. Though the state has voted Republican in every presidential election since 1964 (save 1992’s three-way race, when a plurality voted for Clinton), current polls have the presidential race too close to call.
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